• The sky is blue, CPAC participant defends slavery.
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(sorry if late, searched and found nothing except a thread with 0 replies in videos) [URL]http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/?mobile=nc[/URL] [quote]The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by [B]Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” [/B]Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.[/quote] [quote][B]When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” [/B]He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.[/quote] person who said this [IMG]http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/photo-2-e1363379275325-300x225.jpg[/IMG] [video=youtube;PGfCX9sJqqc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfCX9sJqqc[/video]
Why. Why do stupid people breed?
hohoho oh wow. this guy right here. real joker man. too bad this happened today, now i can't drink myself to death.
Poor guy, he's getting disenfranchised!
What a shock...
Some people from my state.. I swear we aren't all like that in NC.
I'm sure he in particular would have all sorts of warm feelings if the government took away everything he worked for and then gave him food stamps and public housing in return. Maybe even get a good laugh out of it too.
Apparently, all of CPAC was a bust. Stuff like this make it hard for me to call myself an American-style Conservative.
[QUOTE=Coppermoss;39957412]Apparently, all of CPAC was a bust. Stuff like this make it hard for me to call myself an American-style Conservative.[/QUOTE] i dunno why you'd even want to call yourself an american-style conservative in the first place
[QUOTE=Coppermoss;39957412]Stuff like this make it hard for me to call myself an American-style Conservative.[/QUOTE] You could use the equivalent term, 18th Century American-Style Moderate
Watch some of the footage on CSPAN couple days ago. Couple of the speakers are completely nutz.
[Quote=Racist Scumbag] At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.” [/Quote] Did he really just go there? :V Also, [QUOTE] He claimed to be a direct descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. [/QUOTE]
I was at the hotel where there this was being held (for something else) and whenever I told people I was at the hotel they'd think I was a conservative until I told them what I was there for :(
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_473nrD5vEv8/R3UNjYgvWnI/AAAAAAAAANU/XehIKcSWp9M/s400/whipped-slave.jpg[/img] Slavery was truly a progressive system. Look at his achievement scars!
to be fair it doesn't seem like anyone is really applauding or cheering. people seemed pretty shocked.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39957880]to be fair it doesn't seem like anyone is really applauding or cheering. people seemed pretty shocked.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure the people cheering are of the more "Slow clap for how absolutely stupid it was" variety.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39957880]to be fair it doesn't seem like anyone is really applauding or cheering. people seemed pretty shocked.[/QUOTE] there were people with shocked expressions, sure, but i definitely heard some clapping and it seemed like a lot of people seemed okay with what he said or didn't have a reaction towards it. seemed like most of those who reacted negatively were the kids present that knew what he was saying was wrong i also note that it seemed like everyone in that room except for the speaker was white. definitely would have been some different reactions from the crowd if the surrounding people were more diversified
Wasn't Lincoln a Republican?
[QUOTE=iTrolol;39957269]Why. Why do stupid people breed?[/QUOTE] sex makes my dingus feel all tingly and I really like that.
thinkprogress is not the most impartial source, several people cheered and applauded him? Sounded like just one jackass clapping and a bunch of very surprised people.
[QUOTE=Lolx0rz;39958028]Wasn't Lincoln a Republican?[/QUOTE] The republican party when it was founded is a lot different from the republican party today. I think the major shift occurred the the mid 20th century when the south moved from the democratic party to the republican party. Its really apparent when you look at the 1860s and one of the major things for the republican party was abolishing slaver, and 1960s when the republican party was allying itself with people who were against desegregation.
[QUOTE=Lolx0rz;39958028]Wasn't Lincoln a Republican?[/QUOTE] The parties had very different ideals back then.
I think the key difference to remember was that the Republican Party has always been a fairly religious party, even during the 1860's. It was never a "liberal" party so much as finding slavery to be very much anti-Christian and morally bankrupt (Hence why abolition was supported and preached by many Christian denominations during the war itself, of those who were at all abolitionist). It was more of the "this is wrong, we should be GOOD Christians" party compared to the Southern Democrats and the really crazy anti-immigration folks. I never really thought about it that way, but it makes a lot of sense now that I re-examine what I've read.
[QUOTE=Pat4ever;39957947]there were people with shocked expressions, sure, but i definitely heard some clapping and it seemed like a lot of people seemed okay with what he said or didn't have a reaction towards it. seemed like most of those who reacted negatively were the kids present that knew what he was saying was wrong i also note that it seemed like everyone in that room except for the speaker was white. definitely would have been some different reactions from the crowd if the surrounding people were more diversified[/QUOTE] there was like one person clapping, and in context it seems to me like it was done humorously rather than actual agreement with the statement. as soon as the dude said the shit about slavery, it seemed like the whole room was simply in shock from the stupidity. [QUOTE=Valnar;39958163]The republican party when it was founded is a lot different from the republican party today. I think the major shift occurred the the mid 20th century when the south moved from the democratic party to the republican party. Its really apparent when you look at the 1860s and one of the major things for the republican party was abolishing slaver, and 1960s when the republican party was allying itself with people who were against desegregation.[/QUOTE] dixie democrats were also very staunchly opposed to civil rights. i think eventually it was bipartisan passing the civil rights act despite republicans and democrats who resisted.
I really think at this point we should create a new Know-Nothing Party to try and clear out the really crazy people from the Republican Party. The far-right's stance on most current issues almost exactly match theirs.
[QUOTE=itak365;39958325]I really think at this point we should create a new Know-Nothing Party to try and clear out the really crazy people from the Republican Party. The far-right's stance on most current issues almost exactly match theirs.[/QUOTE] Bring the know nothings back? Bill the Butcher pt. 2
The best part of this is that it happened at a panel discussing how the GOP can be less alienating to people who aren't white.
are the gop trying anymore or what because it seems they gave up around the time they voted on romney as a candidate
[QUOTE=ajrhug;39958820]are the gop trying anymore or what because it seems they gave up around the time they voted on romney as a candidate[/QUOTE] Well, for some of them the problem was that Romney wasn't crazy enough apparently. Hell they reference Lincoln alot in these things but I'm sure if Lincoln ran right now he'd be seen as a RINO. I mean seriously this is the president who introduced the progressive tax. It's been vogue among some nutters for some reason to downplay the bad effects of slavery and instead take up the paternalistic position that it was a good thing somehow. There has been some weird interpretations too with the Confederacy being touted as a model government for states' rights and free markets. This is mostly a fringe group but it's truly saddening that such people can be around nowadays.
[QUOTE=MercZ;39959312]Well, for some of them the problem was that Romney wasn't crazy enough apparently. Hell they reference Lincoln alot in these things but I'm sure if Lincoln ran right now he'd be seen as a RINO. I mean seriously this is the president who introduced the progressive tax. It's been vogue among some nutters for some reason to downplay the bad effects of slavery and instead take up the paternalistic position that it was a good thing somehow. There has been some weird interpretations too with the Confederacy being touted as a model government for states' rights and free markets. This is mostly a fringe group but it's truly saddening that such people can be around nowadays.[/QUOTE] well considering the vibe of "secession" talks when obamacare was coming around it seems like it's about resisting federal policy that's anti-republican under the guise of "states rights"
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